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Accreditation and Assessment Services

Cedarville University is chartered by the State of Ohio and certified by the Ohio Board of Regents. The University is regionally accredited through the Higher Learning Commission.

Additionally, several departments and programs within the University hold program-specific accreditations, certificates, and licensures insuring our graduates the full benefit of approved and professionally recognized degree programs. See our Accreditation, Recognition, and Licensure page for specific associations.

Accreditation Services

Accreditation Services works hand-in-hand with Institutional Research to oversee a continuous process to understand, describe, update, and improve the educational quality at Cedarville University through the self-study and accreditation processes. Specifically, Accreditation Services provides direct support for the Higher Learning Commission and the Ohio Board of Regents processes including:

Self-study supervision and coordination

Submission of change and new program requests

Preparation of related and required documents

Planning and logistics for site visits

Specialized budgeting

Timing of strategies and announcements

Accreditation Services also provides essential collaboration for specialized programmatic accreditation for specific departments and programs within the University as follows:

Collaborate with deans and department chairs on an annual basis to ensure appropriate budgetary requirements for accreditation

Develop an initial timeline and checklist for the self-study and campus visit

Provide auxiliary support for offices making accommodations for campus visit scheduling of administrators and non-departmental personnel who need to be interviewed

Collect data and documents requested by the agency that are outside of the departmental control

Support the departments in their self-study writing process for areas outside of the departmental control and other specific requests

Review the final content of the self-study and related documents verifying that agency requested responses are answered

Serve as a liaison to any editor of a final draft of the self-study to ensure consistency of reporting documents

Participate in campus visits, as needed

Accreditation Blog

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Assessment Services

Mission of Institutional Assessment

The mission of assessment and student learning at Cedarville University is to encourage and promote a culture of assessment for the entire learning community. This will be done by: providing information and technical expertise to facilitate continuous improvement of student learning; developing and disseminating best practices, and maintaining a systematic and systemic collection of student learning assessment data used to engage the campus community in reflection and action on continuous program improvement.

Goals

Coordinate and support annual cycle of assessment of programs, University Portrait Statements, and general education

Conduct surveys of various constituencies

Departmental and program planning

Regular reporting of findings to appropriate administrative and faculty committees